# Dutch-Speaking Dopers: Two Quick Translations Please **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 12, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-speaking-dopers-two-quick-translations-please/786460 "2017-05-12T16:50:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-speaking-dopers-two-quick-translations-please/786460/1 "2017-05-12T16:50:57Z")
Hello. If you speak Dutch (Nederlander), can you please help me with these two songs? 1. [This nursery rhyme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh75upe4sOM). Google Translate is clunky and isn’t giving me much - something about a gnome and a mushroom. I’m not too concerned about the _Kabouter’s_ name - obviously that probably won’t easily translate into English. But I’m interested in knowing the rest of the song. I don’t need a poetic translation, a literal one will do. 2. [This lullaby](https://youtu.be/T_Enfdlfn5A?t=6m48s). The woman only sings a couple of lines to her friend, I’d like to know the whole song. Also, the YouTube translation is clearly poetic (I don’t think Dutch lullabies translate into English with perfect rhyme and meter); I’m interested in the literal translation. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Esco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9de053/32.png) [@Esco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esco)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-speaking-dopers-two-quick-translations-please/786460/2 "2017-05-12T17:13:00Z")
1. Gnome is sitting on a polka dot mushroom, rocking back n forth. Snap goes the stem, both legs go into the air. But the gnome keeps rocking on his polka dot mushroom. On comes grandpa Lammers who telks him to quit rocking on the mushroom. I’m not sure how exactly the gnome managed to fix that broken mushroom so quickly 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Esco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9de053/32.png) [@Esco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esco)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-speaking-dopers-two-quick-translations-please/786460/3 "2017-05-12T17:18:55Z")
1. I’m not sure exactly what part of the second video you want translated ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-speaking-dopers-two-quick-translations-please/786460/4 "2017-05-12T17:21:36Z")
> [@Esco](#): > > 1. I’m not sure exactly what part of the second video you want translated Beginning at 6:48, when the woman begins singing a lullaby to her sleepy friend. ---
**Author:** ![Esco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9de053/32.png) [@Esco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esco)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-speaking-dopers-two-quick-translations-please/786460/5 "2017-05-12T18:07:36Z")
**2.** A sheep with little white feet, drinks its milk so sweet. Sleep little child, sleep. Outside there walks a sheep. Okay so am I getting paid for this, and why do you need this translated?? . ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-speaking-dopers-two-quick-translations-please/786460/6 "2017-05-12T18:26:44Z")
> [@Esco](#): > > **2.** A sheep with little white feet, drinks its milk so sweet. Sleep little child, sleep. Outside there walks a sheep. > > Okay so am I getting paid for this, and why do you need this translated?? I’ll pay you in good vibes, that’s all I’ve got. As for why: I came across those songs while watching the YouTube channel in the second video (where the woman sings the lullaby). I love foreign languages as well as minutiae about daily life in different cultures, and I was curious about what those songs mean. ---
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-speaking-dopers-two-quick-translations-please/786460/7 "2017-05-13T13:52:29Z")
On a large toadstool Red with white dots Sat gnome Swivel-Legs Rocking back and forth “crack,” said the toadstool With a deep sigh Both the little legs Whoops in the air But Gnome Swivel-Legs Continued, in spite of that, to rock On that big toadstool Red with white dots Along comes Father Longbeard And he said loudly Does that little stool have to break too? Swivel-Legs, stop it! I only know the first verse of the second one, but Google has some more verses. It starts off with: Sleep, baby, sleep, Outside a sheep is walking. Then goes on like in the video. Wikipedia has a verse about: Sleep, baby, sleep, Outside there walks a sheep Outside there walks a furry cow Baby, close your eyes. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-speaking-dopers-two-quick-translations-please/786460/8 "2017-05-13T15:13:13Z")
> [@Weedy](#): > > […] Spot on.